单词 | marine turtle |
释义 | marine turtle (once / 984943 pages) n WORD FAMILY marine turtle: marine turtles USAGE EXAMPLESTheir hatching is a natural spectacle and local families have taught their children to protect the marine turtles. Reuters(Sep 22, 2016) The species is classified as endangered together with five others out of seven marine turtle species, the WWF says. Reuters(Sep 22, 2016) Far smaller than oceangoing marine turtles, terrapins lack flippers, and consequently remain very turtle-like in appearance. New York Times(Jul 08, 2016) n any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas Syn|Hypo|Hyper sea turtle Chelonia mydas, green turtle large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup Caretta caretta, loggerhead, loggerhead turtlevery large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas ridleya marine turtle Eretmochelys imbricata, hawkbill, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtlepugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback, leatherback turtle, leathery turtlewide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle Atlantic ridley, Lepidochelys kempii, bastard ridley, bastard turtlegrey sea turtle of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America Lepidochelys olivacea, Pacific ridley, olive ridleyolive-colored sea turtle of tropical Pacific and Indian and the southern Atlantic oceans turtle any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming |
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